Involving young people and children in planting a million mangroves
My friends and I decided to separate waste at school and at home. This was noticed by the principal and the board of directors of the school, who supported our activity and started a zero-waste campaign. We used social media to generate awareness, which led more people in our town to set up separate bins for waste. Try using social media to generate awareness! #bustthewaste
An initiative to plant a million mangroves, started by Bader Al Balushi in Oman, expanded to the regional level. Mr. Bader is known as the spiritual father of this initiative between generations. He has worked to involve young people and children, in order to continue to realize the importance of this type of ecosystem. Mangrove forests are important to coastal communities because of the ecosystem services they provide (Feller et al. 2017).
